Local lateral connectivity is sufficient for replicating cortex-like topographical organization in deep neural networks
Xinyu Qian, Amirozhan Dehghani, Asa Farahani, Pouya Bashivan
This paper shows that local lateral connectivity in deep neural networks can replicate cortex-like topographical organization without explicit learning rules.
Nature Communications · Mar 17, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience